Jan Frodeno

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Jan Frodeno
File:Jan Frodeno 2015 Ironman European Championship Frankfurt.jpeg
Jan Frodeno at the 2015 Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main.
Personal information
Nickname(s) Frodo[1]
Born (1981-08-18) 18 August 1981 (age 42)[1]
Cologne, Germany
Residence Saarbrücken[2]
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)[1]
Other interests Beach Volleyball, Surfing, Cooking[1]
Sport
Country Germany
Club Tri-Sport Saar-Hochwald e. V.
Coached by Dan Lorang[3]
Medal record
Men's triathlon
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Men's race
Ironman World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Individual
Ironman 70.3 World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 Zell am See Individual
Silver medal – second place 2014 Mont-Tremblant Individual

Jan Frodeno (born 18 August 1981) is a German triathlete. He is the gold medal winner in men's triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the winner of the 2015 Ironman World Championship and the winner of the 2015 Ironman 70.3 World Championship.

Athletic career

Born in Cologne, Frodeno started out as a swimmer in South Africa at the age of 15, and he entered triathlon in 2000.[4] He then went to Germany to compete in the Triathlon-Bundesliga, and qualified for the national team in 2002.[4] As part of the national team he trained at the Olympic Training Centre in Saarbrücken.[1] Before his Olympic victory, his best result was placing sixth in the 2007 World Championships,[2] and winning the German Championship the same year.[5] He had previously also placed second and third in various races of the World Cup from 2005 to 2008.[2]

Frodeno's gold medal win at the 2008 Summer Olympics was a surprise.[6] He beat the 2000 Olympic champion Simon Whitfield in a sprint finish, while the hot pre-race favorite and 2008 World Champion Javier Gómez finished in fourth place.[6] The victory came the day after his twenty-seventh birthday. Frodeno continued to perform strongly in 2009 and 2010, finishing 4th overall in the World Championship Triathlon Series both years. He was on course to become World Champion in 2010, needing only a 4th place in the Series Grand Final in Budapest, but due to an injury struggled to a 41st-place finish, losing the Overall title to Javier Gómez.

Frodeno returned to the Olympics in 2012 to compete in the men's triathlon event where he would finish 6th.[7] The next year, in 2013, he retired from the shorter standard and sprint triathlon after winning a gold medal as part of the German team in the mixed relay triathlon world championships in Hamburg.[8] He subsequently switched to longer distance endurance triathlons,[9] finishing second at the 2013 Ironman 70.3 European Championships in Wiesbaden[10] and scoring his first Ironman 70.3 win at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Championship in Auckland.[11] He finished third on his full-length Ironman debut at the Ironman European Championship[12] and also finished third at the 2014 Ironman World Championship on his World Championship debut.[13]

In 2015 Frodeno suffered a cycling injury that took him out of the inaugural Challenge Dubai. Instead he made his season debut at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside, winning the event while edging out Andy Potts and Lionel Sanders. Following Oceanside, Frodeno took 2nd at Cannes Triathlon and 1st at Ironman 70.3 Barcelona. He went on to win the Ironman European Championship on home soil in Frankfurt, winning with a lead of over ten minutes and breaking the course record by over five minutes.[14] He won the 2015 Ironman 70.3 World Championship defeating Sebastian Kienle and the defending champion Javier Gomez.[15][16]

On October 11, 2015, he made history, becoming the first triathlete, male or female, to win both the Olympic Triathlon Gold and the Ironman World Championship title.[17][18] He won over a field that included defending champion Kienle, 2013 champion Frederik Van Lierde, Andy Potts, and Andreas Raelert. He began with a strong swim where he exited and transitioned onto the bike along with Potts and Dylan McNeice at the front, pulling away from the other leaders on the bike, and completing with one of the fastest marathon runs of the day.

Personal

Frodeno is married to Emma Snowsill, the gold medalist in women's triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[11]

References

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External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by German Sportsman of the Year
2015		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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